Company Profile

Crowe Foundry was established by Bob and Don Crowe in 1953 in what was then Hespeler, Ontario, in an effort to diversify from their established piano plate business, operated under the name of Griffin Foundry Limited. By 1955, the two operations had amalgamated, and the jobbing side had overtaken piano plates in importance.

The adoption of new technology and innovative methods has always been a priority.

Crowe Foundry Firsts...
· In its early years Crowe Foundry was among the first in the industry to provide lower phosphorus irons, and to use shell cores, leading to better physical and dimensional characteristics. · We were the first Canadian foundry to use the SO₂ core making process on a production basis.	· Crowe was the first North American iron foundry to utlize a vertical channel induction furnace as a primary melter, in order to minimize peak electrical load and to optimize utilization. · When that furnace was installed in 1969 it had the worlds highest power inductor, and when it was up-graded in 1974 and again in 1979, the power limits were taken to the limits of technology.

Currently our facilities include squeezer, automatic matchplate and cope and drag green sand moulding, airset moulding, airset, shell, SO₂ and oil-sand coremaking processes, two vertical channel furnaces and an appropriate variety of cleaning and grinding equipment.

The company has developed a very diversified market base with a high and growing dependence on exports. Castings, ranging in weight from ounces to a ton, in a wide variety of grey and ductile irons and in quantities from one piece to several thousand per release, are supplied to the electric motor, pump and diesel engine, agricultural and other markets.

We have made a commitment to the continuing improvement of our technical skills, our quality systems, our facilities and our health and safety programmes in an effort to satisfy the needs of our stakeholders in the long term.

Crowe Foundry Limited